[slurm-users] Creating priority quotas

[Loris Bennett]

Hi Brian,

QOS is probably the right way to go.  You can set up a QOS 'vip', which
can preempt other QOS.  We don't preempt, but use multifactor priority
with various QOS with different priority values.  In that case, VIP jobs
won't start immediately, but just get pushed to the front of the queue.
On the other hand, no CPU-time is lost due to low-status jobs being
terminated early due to preemption (although if the low-status jobs are
able to do some form of checkpointing that will be less of an issue).
Depending on how pushy your VIPs are, they might go for a preemptionless
solution, too.

Cheers,

Loris

John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> writes:

> Brian, not my area of expertise. Do you want 'premption' - ie the VIP user runs something and other jobs are pre-empted?
> https://slurm.schedmd.com/preempt.html
>
> On 25 January 2018 at 16:27, Brian Novogradac <Brian.Novogradac at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
>  I'm new to Slurm, and looking for some assistance.
>
>  I need to create various queues. The one i am having issues with is a "VIP" queue
>
>  I want to create a queue for a specific node that overides all jobs on that node when a "VIP" uses the queue.
>
>  We are using SSSD for our authentication system to the login node.
>
>  I'm looking at the QOS docs and am stumped.
>
>  Any help or direction much appreciated.
>
>  Brian Novogradac
>
>
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